. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. ANABAS. Gl Pectoral as long as head. Ventral produced into a filament, reaching fifth or sixth anal spine. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle merely in- dicated. Scales rugose and strongly ctenoid, 27-28 g; lateral lines Trirr. Brownish, with 6 or 7 regular dark bars with wavy edges, wider than the interspaces; spinous dorsal and anal edged with blackish, the former with several oblique dark streaks ; outer half of ventrals black. Total length 79 m
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. ANABAS. Gl Pectoral as long as head. Ventral produced into a filament, reaching fifth or sixth anal spine. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle merely in- dicated. Scales rugose and strongly ctenoid, 27-28 g; lateral lines Trirr. Brownish, with 6 or 7 regular dark bars with wavy edges, wider than the interspaces; spinous dorsal and anal edged with blackish, the former with several oblique dark streaks ; outer half of ventrals black. Total length 79 millim. Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). Mr. J. Paul Arnold (P.). Congo. 1-3. Tvpes. Monsembe, Upper Congo 4. Ad. Boraa, Lower Congo. Fie. ^^^^WY* Wk Anabas petherici. Type(). J. 11. ANABAS PETHERICI. Ctenopoma petherici, part., Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xiii. 18G4, p. 211, xx. 18G7, p. 110, and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 208, pi. i. fig. A (1869). Anabas petherici, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 243, and Fish. Nile, p. 442, pi. lxxxiii. fig. 1 (1907) ; Pellegr. Poiss. Bass. Tchad, p. 120, fig. (1914). Depth of body 2j to 1\ times in total length, length of head 2§ to 3 times. Snout rounded, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 4 to 4§ times in length of head and about \\ times in inter- orbital width; maxillary extending to below anterior third of eye; palatine teeth present; praeorbital entire; a few small seme may be present at the angle of the prseoperculum; interoperculum and sub- operculum finely serrated ; operculum with two groups of strong serrae,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. London : Printed by order of the Trustees : Sold by Longmans & Co. , B. Quarit
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